Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother miserable. For all that, Georges is attracted to show business all the more as he falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of singer Lormel. Georges is spotted by Cartier, the manager of the Folies Concert and makes his debut as a singer under the assumed name of Jean Papillon.
프랑소아(장 가뱅)는 자신의 아파트에 몸을 숨기고 경찰이 오기를 기다린다. 그는 치정에 얽혀 발랑탱이라는 남자를 살해한 상태다. 그는 어두운 방안에서 경찰차의 사이렌 소리가 가까워지자 과거에 사랑했었던 두 여자, 프랑소와즈와 클라라를 회상한다. 사악한 발랑탱은 그들의 마음을 사로잡아 프랑소아를 상심에 빠져들게 했던 것이다.
Claire and Jean are lovers, but Claire's father opposes this union, because Jean is the son of a woman he once knew. Jean becomes a great singer, but doesn't forget Claire.
In the Camargue, a herdsman has just become engaged to a young local girl when his heart is troubled by a stranger who is playing the comedy of love for him. After this disappointment, he resumes the interrupted idyll.
A cabaret singer in Barcelona sacrifices her feelings for an exiled young Frenchman who had been falsely accused of a crime, when the sister of the real culprit seeks the exile out.
His aunt hopes to make this young aristocrat an honored soldier. But the colonel has it out for him.Will the new recruit be able to adapt to military life?
